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Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
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Islington
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.
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The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.
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Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
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